Quotes About Beauty

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

The moon shows the truth of things.

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.